From 1e5d0cb773e993fac2d56c4abe93b66cf208eead Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Waylan Limberg <waylan@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:31:32 -0500
Subject: Fixed #68. Blank line is not required after html comments.

Interestingly, the change to the misc/mismatched-tags test is inline with
PHP Markdown Extra's behavior  but not markdown.pl, which produces invalid html.
---
 markdown/preprocessors.py       | 24 ++++++++++--------------
 tests/misc/comments.html        |  6 +++++-
 tests/misc/comments.txt         |  3 +++
 tests/misc/mismatched-tags.html |  5 ++++-
 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/markdown/preprocessors.py b/markdown/preprocessors.py
index a80f9fb..0094d7b 100644
--- a/markdown/preprocessors.py
+++ b/markdown/preprocessors.py
@@ -143,21 +143,20 @@ class HtmlBlockPreprocessor(Preprocessor):
 
             if not in_tag:
                 if block.startswith("<") and len(block.strip()) > 1:
-                    left_tag, left_index, attrs = self._get_left_tag(block)
-                    right_tag, data_index = self._get_right_tag(left_tag, 
-                                                                left_index,
-                                                                block)
 
                     if block[1] == "!":
                         # is a comment block
-                        left_tag = "--"
-                        right_tag, data_index = self._get_right_tag(left_tag, 
-                                                                    left_index,
-                                                                    block)
-                        # keep checking conditions below and maybe just append
+                        left_tag, left_index, attrs  = "--", 2, ()
+                    else:
+                        left_tag, left_index, attrs = self._get_left_tag(block)
+                    right_tag, data_index = self._get_right_tag(left_tag, 
+                                                                left_index,
+                                                                block)
+                    # keep checking conditions below and maybe just append
                     
                     if data_index < len(block) \
-                        and util.isBlockLevel(left_tag): 
+                        and (util.isBlockLevel(left_tag)
+                        or left_tag == '--'): 
                         text.insert(0, block[data_index:])
                         block = block[:data_index]
 
@@ -202,12 +201,9 @@ class HtmlBlockPreprocessor(Preprocessor):
                 new_blocks.append(block)
 
             else:
-                #import pdb; pdb.set_trace()
                 items.append(block)
 
-                right_tag, data_index = self._get_right_tag(left_tag, 
-                                                            0, 
-                                                            block)
+                right_tag, data_index = self._get_right_tag(left_tag, 0, block)
 
                 if self._equal_tags(left_tag, right_tag):
                     # if find closing tag
diff --git a/tests/misc/comments.html b/tests/misc/comments.html
index 005a755..2240ab9 100644
--- a/tests/misc/comments.html
+++ b/tests/misc/comments.html
@@ -2,4 +2,8 @@
 <p>X&gt;0</p>
 <!-- A comment -->
 
-<div>as if</div>
\ No newline at end of file
+<div>as if</div>
+
+<!-- comment -->
+
+<p><strong>no blank line</strong></p>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/misc/comments.txt b/tests/misc/comments.txt
index 68302b0..d9186f0 100644
--- a/tests/misc/comments.txt
+++ b/tests/misc/comments.txt
@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@ X>0
 <!-- A comment -->
 
 <div>as if</div>
+
+<!-- comment -->
+__no blank line__
diff --git a/tests/misc/mismatched-tags.html b/tests/misc/mismatched-tags.html
index ec087e1..06bd57f 100644
--- a/tests/misc/mismatched-tags.html
+++ b/tests/misc/mismatched-tags.html
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 <p>And this output</p>
 
 <p><em>Compatible with PHP Markdown Extra 1.2.2 and Markdown.pl1.0.2b8:</em></p>
-<!-- comment --><p><div>text</div><br /></p><br />
+<!-- comment -->
 
+<p><div>text</div><br /></p>
+
+<p><br /></p>
 <p>Should be in p</p>
\ No newline at end of file
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